When faced with heartbreak…

Life can be heartbreaking at times, when you learn of a loved one who is struck with illness or cancer. It can be devastating when you get the news that one of your best friends who has struggled with failing health for many years was finally called home. Life has those seasons of grief and sadness.

Life also has seasons of lovely bliss, fruitfulness, joy and fulfillment. Think back to your wedding day, or maybe when you welcomed a new baby into the world, when you were working in your career you loved, when you felt so close to your Father in Heaven.

Seasons we need them, right, without them the land is more barren. My husband tried to explain it to me in terms of a capacitor needing the resistance to work correctly but I didn’t understand that enough to explain it to you. Rather I will just share some stories from a couple of years ago to remind us all there is…